combining cards from stacks

[Ken Ray]

Bernard,

You have stumbled upon an interesting (and potentially useful) command in
Rev. The idea was that if you wanted to have a single window that could
display the contents of multiple stacks, you could open a stack "in" the
window of another stack. This would mean there would be no need to redraw
the window frame; just the contents of the window would change to reflect
that in the new stack. This is different than opening one stack with the
same rectangle on top of another stack (which would cause Rev to redraw the
entire region and it would appear to "blink" as the new stack opened).

Although this may not be documented in Rev, it *is* documented in MetaCard
under the "go" command with the syntax:

    go [to] [invisible] <stack> [as <mode>][in window <wid>]

Where the description states:

    The <wid> parameter can be either the name or the
    windowID of a stack that the new stack should
    open into instead of opening a new window.

Hope this helps clear things up,


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Devlin" <revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com>
To: "use-revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: combining cards from stacks


>
> > open card x in stack y
>
> Monte, if this meets my criteria, it is a truly elegant solution.  I can
cycle
> through the user's selected stacks, and open each card in the central
stack.
>
> However, I just tried it, and what seems to happen is it seems to open the
> stack in the window of another stack.
>
> For example, if I type this into the message box:
>
> open "card id 1075" of "stack A" in "stack B"
>
> the card appears to open in Stack B, however _the title_ of stack B
becomes
> "Stack A", and all the cards from Stack A are there.
>
> Strangely enough "open" does not appear at all in the "Transcript
Dictionary",
> but can be found by searching the documentation, where it appears to be a
> synonym for "go".  The "go" command does refer to opening stacks in other
> windows.
>
> I'm a bit confused by this command.  I went to the Google search of this
list
> and "open card" did not turn up many resources there, so I think others on
the
> list may also benefit from further discussion/investigation into this.
>
> I have the suspicion that if I open the cards from say Stack C then these
cards
> will over-write the cards in Stack B, or at the very least over-write the
title
> of the stack.  If the cards are not over-written, I guess I could just
change
> the title back again after loading all the stacks.
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